college rag

CoPress, the grassroots movement to host college newspapers, has announced its first site hosting plan, with two participants so far — The Whit weekly student newspaper at Rowan University, and the F Newsmagazine at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Publications will pay a small monthly fee. We’re volunteering our efforts and offering this service at [...]

The first survey from CoPress, the grassroots movement to create a new college media CMS, is about to finish.
From Adam Hemphill: “Good morning everyone! This is just a gentle reminder–or a first notification for new members–that our survey closes in just under one week (at 8 p.m. EST on Friday, October 10). If you haven’t checked [...]

A new post on the CoPress site debates the merits of College Publisher and Wordpress as a CMS for a college news site.
The post mostly deals with manueverability and technical knowledge needed.
“Customization is a challenge, to put it mildly. That’s why CP sites look very similar in style and structure. Unfortunately, the standard isn’t a [...]

CoPress, the grassroots movement to create a new college media CMS, is surveying college newspaper online editors on their current CMS and how satisfied they are with it. Seven newspapers had submitted responses as of Tuesday.
“One of the big steps is our survey for online editors across the country, which we hope to use to [...]

Thanks to Kevin Koehler, CoPress.org has an updated “About” page that refines the project’s mission.
From the page: “Student newspapers, at colleges and universities, fare no better than the pros. In fact, they’re generally worse off. Few student publications have much technical talent at all on staff, and what they do have is spread very thin. [...]

CoPress, the grassroots movement to create a new college media CMS, has launched its official Web site.
From the about page: “CoPress is a technical ecosystem of student newspapers all about figuring out better ways to manage, display, and distribute content online. At the moment, we’re just getting things started.”
The project is led by Adam Hemphill, Daniel Bachhuber, Greg [...]